Kathleen Evanovich Zavotsky

ORCID: 0009-0006-8897-3668
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Research Areas
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Nursing Roles and Practices
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Nursing education and management
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Organ Donation and Transplantation
  • Music Therapy and Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

NYU Langone Health
2024-2025

Miami Transplant Institute
2023

American College of Emergency Physicians
2019

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
2004-2018

Kean University
2018

Brunswick (United States)
2012-2018

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2014-2016

Center for Innovation
2016

Pirelli (Italy)
2016

Stanford Health Care
2016

Background: While overall death rates of stroke have decreased, minority populations continue to experience an increase in related death. There are known sociodemographic variations awareness. The lowest reported knowledge signs is within the Hispanic (58%) communities, trailing behind Black (64%) and white (71%) communities. Understanding relationship between social determinants health (SDoH) awareness may help bridge gap care. Purpose: purpose this study determine if relationships exist...

10.1161/str.56.suppl_1.ns6 article EN Stroke 2025-01-30

Despite experiencing an increased incidence in stroke, minority groups have the lowest reported knowledge of stroke signs and symptoms are less likely to receive time-sensitive interventions. There is a need explore relationship between social determinants health awareness severity within at-risk communities. The aim this study was relationships underserved area located city borough Northeastern United States. We used exploratory descriptive retrospective design existing data. Data from 1162...

10.1097/nnr.0000000000000829 article EN Nursing Research 2025-04-17

To investigate patient recall of therapeutic paralysis (TP) in a surgical critical care unit.Prospectively applied structured interview patients undergoing TP over 18 months.Surgical unit with 27 beds at tertiary university teaching hospital.Forty admitted for postoperative after coronary artery bypass graft surgery, trauma, or gastrointestinal surgery.Patients received and concurrent sedation benzodiazepines, propofol, narcotics.After the end were asked to experience, their responses ranked...

10.1002/j.1875-9114.1998.tb03862.x article EN Pharmacotherapy The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy 1998-03-04

Emergency department (ED) nurses practice in environments that are highly charged and unpredictable nature can precipitate conflict between the necessary prescribed actions individual's sense of what is morally right thing to do. As a consequence multiple moral dilemmas, ED staff at risk for experiencing distress how they cope with these challenges may impact their practice. To examine its relationship coping specialty group. Using survey methods approach. One hundred ninety-eight completed...

10.1097/tme.0000000000000100 article EN Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal 2016-04-01

One in four women who are diagnosed with breast cancer die annually, and the single most important way to prevent this is early detection; therefore, older than 40 years should have an annual screening mammography. Many barriers been reported that compliance recommendation, including lack of insurance, fear, anxiety, pain, worry, mistrust medical community. Nurses a position use creative interventions, such as music therapy, help minimize barriers. Although study did not show therapy during...

10.1188/14.cjon.e45-e49 article EN Clinical journal of oncology nursing 2014-05-27

The literature supports family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and its many perceived benefits for patients their families. It also suggests that, overall, health care professionals are supportive of this practice. There have not been any published studies to date that looked at the perception from multidisciplinary or code team's perspective. purpose study was describe provider's understanding barriers CPR in an academic medical center. This is a quantitative,...

10.1097/tme.0000000000000027 article EN Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal 2014-10-01

The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between resilience and coping in frontline nurses working a healthcare system that has recently undergone merger.Hospital mergers are common current environment. Mergers can provide hospital opportunity use develop positive strategies help remain resilient during times change.An anonymous-survey, quantitative, exploratory, descriptive design used. Data were obtained from an electronic survey made available all 3-hospital located...

10.1097/nur.0000000000000358 article EN Clinical Nurse Specialist 2018-02-07

Background: In areas where obstetric services are not available, emergency departments often become the default for unplanned care, yet nurses universally trained in identification and treatment of emergencies. The purpose this study was to explore nurses' perception acuity triage pregnant or postpartum patients presenting department with high-risk complaints identify facilitators challenges accurate these patients. Method: A mixed-methods conducted using chart review data ( N = 12,766)...

10.3928/00220124-20201215-07 article EN The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing 2020-12-29

A 5-time designated Magnet academic medical center partnered with its infusion systems supplier to successfully integrate 1327 smart pumps across 45 departments an aggressive 3-month timeline. The team also achieved quality improvement (QI) outcomes through increased drug library compliance and decreased alerts their new technology.This large needed implement innovative wireless pump technology in a short time frame.The approach involved strong partnership from the supplier, extensive...

10.1097/ncq.0000000000000326 article EN Journal of Nursing Care Quality 2018-04-10

The aim of this study was to further explore falls that occur in the elderly individuals (>65 years) an academic medical center. This done through secondary analysis a preexisting database.All hospitalized patients are at risk for falls. As fall incidents have been shown increase with age, it is critical closely examine factors affecting vulnerable population.A retrospective, quantitative, exploratory descriptive design used analyze data from database. Data were analyzed 18 years or older...

10.1097/nur.0000000000000046 article EN Clinical Nurse Specialist 2014-04-08
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